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Over the summer, a roaming herd of elephants in China captured the world's attention. While no one knows exactly why the elephants roamed off their usual path and away from their home, some experts have suggested that urbanization of previous wildlife areas may be part of the problem. An elephant "canteen" — really just an area with food put out for elephants — is being built in Yunnan, as a way t...

The Daintree region in northeastern Australia has sandy beaches and pristine coral reefs. It’s also home to one of the oldest forests in the world. Estimated to be 180 million years old, the Daintree rainforest is a hot spot of immense biodiversity in Australia, especially its frogs, marsupials, bats and butterflies. And now, centuries after colonization, the land has been officially returned to I...

The European Union pledged 1 billion euros in aid to Afghanistan on Tuesday. The aid is marked for humanitarian assistance and stabilization efforts for Afghanistan and its neighbors. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Laurel Miller, director of International Crisis Group’s Asia Program, about what this aid means and who bears the responsibility for keeping Afghanistan from humanitarian disaster....

The Danish Justice Ministry recently proposed a bill that advocates worry could shift the country's prison structure by limiting inmates' communication with the outside world. If passed into law, inmates serving life sentences would only be able to talk to people they knew before incarceration for the first 10 years of their sentence. They also would be banned from talking to the press about their...

Heavy rains and flooding have displaced 623,000 people across much of South Sudan since May. Higher-than-average precipitation in eastern Africa has pushed the Nile river to historic highs, flooding schools, hospitals and roads. About a third of the counties in South Sudan have been affected. As the crisis stretches on, humanitarian agencies report rising needs for food assistance and emergency sh...

Henrietta Lacks’ life was cut tragically short when she died of cervical cancer at the age of 31 in 1950s Maryland. But in a way, she lived on. Cancer cells from her body have been used by researchers for decades. The HeLa Cells, as they’re called, have been distributed around the world, contributing to tens of thousands of studies and disease treatments. This year is the 70th anniversary of her d...

A global network of scientists has been sharing genomic sequences of the coronavirus with one another in near real time since the start of the pandemic. This has been crucial to tracking the spread of the virus and the emergence of variants. The most popular database where scientists exchange this information, open-source, is called Gisaid. This month, it collected its 4 millionth sequence. The si...

The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it will lift travel restrictions at the Canadian and Mexican borders to tourists, shoppers and casual visitors who can show proof of vaccination. That means a boost for business on the Mexican side of the border, as more people are free to drive into Mexico as they did prepandemic. Host Marco Werman speaks with Sofia Soto of La Rodadora, a scien...

Musician Sorie Kondi is from Sierra Leone and lived through the civil war that ravaged his country in the 1990s. He was born blind in Freetown and taught himself to play the thumb piano. Through a series of chance encounters, he came to the attention of LA-based producer Chief Boima, himself a Sierra Leonean-American. Together, they created the Kondi Band. One more chance encounter brought London...

Delegates from around the world are meeting in person and in Kunming, China, this week in the first part of a high-stakes summit to protect nature. It's a UN summit on biodiversity. Their goal is to create a kind of Paris Agreement to protect the globe's plants and animals over the next decade. The World's environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler has details. 

Iraq’s parliamentary elections are over, and more than 90% of the votes have been counted. So far, the political party of a prominent Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, has secured the most seats. Turnout was a record low and the losing factions are already disputing the results. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

Dozens of State Department nominees are being stalled in the US Senate, mostly due to Sen. Ted Cruz on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is vowing to block dozens more. Only about a quarter of national security positions have been filled to date. Host Marco Werman speaks to Loren DeJonge Schulman, vice president of the Partnership for Public Service, which has been closely tracking hundr...

A harsh new bill is being proposed in Ghana's Parliament. The bill would punish members of the LGBT community as well as their supporters and advocates. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Ghanian journalist Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman about this bill and what its supporters and detractors are saying.

Ports in the United States are stretched to their limit, unloading more and more cargo as warehouse space dwindles. The backups are overwhelming the trucking industry and railroads too. Some companies have even chartered private cargo ships to ensure their goods arrive on time. Marco Werman talks to Joe Harris, the spokesman for the Port of Virginia, about the shipping logjam.

A record number of children are among those migrants using the remote, roadless wilderness on the border of Colombia and Panama to get north. Laurent Duvillier, UNICEF’s regional chief of communications in Panama, tells The World’s Marco Werman that 19,000 kids slogged through the jungle route in the past nine months.

A rusting oil tanker, the FSO Safer, anchored about five miles off the coast of Yemen, is in danger of spilling its million barrels of oil and contaminating the Red Sea coasts of Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti and Eritrea. UN efforts to prevent the spill have been stymied by the ongoing Yemen war. Now, the human cost of such a spill has been calculated. Host Marco Werman speaks with Ben Huynh, a St...

On Tuesday, the United Nations International Court of Justice delivered a final verdict in a long-standing, and long-awaited dispute between Kenya and Somalia over their shared maritime border. The area is believed to be rich in offshore oil, gas and other resources. The decision could have big implications on regional security, as The World’s Halima Gikandi reports.

When COVID-19 spread through mink farms last year, Denmark culled more than 15 million animals. Without breeding stock, farmers there can't start over. They are angry at what they say was the government's drastic response. In other countries, the industry is coming back. In Finland, there's even been a vaccine developed specifically for mink. Tom Carstensen reports from Copenhagen that Danish farm...

Sara Curruchich is from the Mayan Kaqchikel community in Guatemala. And she's the first indigenous Guatemalan singer-songwriter to sing in Kaqchikel for a mass audience. She's taken her message to some of Guatemala’s most rural areas and to the UN. We preview her song “Junam” from her new album “Mujer Indígena” (Indigenous Woman).

Neanderthals, our shorter, stockier humanoid cousins, died out roughly 40,000 years ago. We know about them because lots of Neanderthal bones have been found in Europe. A chilly climate there helps preserve fossils. There's also plenty of well-financed European institutions to study those bones. But as The World’s Patrick Winn reports, scientists are starting to realize that — when it comes to anc...

Whether it’s called soccer, fútbol or anything else, the sport has brought children together from around the world. Yet it does not always provide equal opportunities for all of the kids. Iowa Public Radio's Kassidy Arena reports on one initiative that is trying to level the field.

Ethiopia’s national army has begun a ground offensive against fighters in Tigray, according to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The new fighting will mean a worsening situation for hundreds of thousands of civilians in the north. Many face starvation as a result of the nearly year-long civil war. The World’s Carol Hill speaks to Awol Allo, an Ethiopian political analyst and a professor of law...

Thousands of housing activists rallied for days against Brazil's finance minister, Paulo Guedes, in Brasília this week. They’re accusing him of enriching himself off the devaluation of the Brazilian real, even as inflation, gas and electricity prices have spiked and housing programs have been frozen. Guedes is one of the top Brazilians named in the release of the Pandora Papers for siphoning off m...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of cities across Poland yesterday in protest of last week’s court ruling. The country’s constitutional court declared that parts of EU law were incompatible with the Polish constitution. The ruling effectively undermines the legal bedrock upon which the whole European Union is based. Protesters and opposition politicians are worried this could mean t...

After dismissing parliament, president Kais Saied has approved a new government, named by the newly appointed Prime Minister Najla Bouden Romdhane. The new prime minister's powers have been scaled back, but in her first public speech, Bouden promised to tackle corruption and raise living standards for all Tunisians. The World's Carol Hills speaks to reporter Lilia Blaise, who is in Tunis.